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Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
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Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 150:05 minutes | 885 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 150:05 minutes | 885 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download
It may be tempting to reduce Convocations into a longform ambient anomaly within Sufjan Stevens’ vast catalogue. It is, however, neither an anomaly nor entirely ambient. This is not a side project. From his numerous dance scores for New York City Ballet to instrumental albums such as Enjoy Your Rabbit, Aporia, and The BQE, Stevens spends at least half his working life making largely instrumental music, as he has for decades. And though the first ten pieces, dubbed “Meditations,” unfurl as gorgeous states of reflective new-age grace, this is by no means an ambient enterprise. Stevens invokes the lessons of Morton Subotnick, Maryanne Amacher, Christian Fennesz, Brian Eno, and Wolfgang Voigt here. As musically erudite as it is emotionally experienced, Convocations can be dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, or calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through loss, isolation, and anxiety.
Indeed, Convocations moves like a two-and-a-half-hour requiem mass for our present times of difficulty, its 49 tracks allowing for all these feelings to be felt. The album is divided into five sonic cycles, each replicating a different stage of mourning. Convocations occasionally soothes and sometimes hurts; when it’s done, you’re left with a renewed sense of wonder for being here at all.
In fact, Stevens made Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his biological father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about loss, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. One could easily compare this project to Stevens’ album Carrie & Lowell, which he wrote following his mother’s death. But this is something entirely different. A new time, a new season, a new life lost, a new reckoning, a new kind of isolation, grief, despair, frustration, confusion, and the search for happiness and hope for the future. This is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. So long as the science and statistics hold, Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.
Tracklist:
1. Meditation I (03:40)
2. Meditation II (02:27)
3. Meditation III (04:04)
4. Meditation IV (02:10)
5. Meditation V (02:11)
6. Meditation VI (02:16)
7. Meditation VII (02:34)
8. Meditation VIII (01:48)
9. Meditation IX (02:12)
10. Meditation X (03:40)
11. Lamentation I (03:49)
12. Lamentation II (02:25)
13. Lamentation III (03:18)
14. Lamentation IV (01:59)
15. Lamentation V (04:11)
16. Lamentation VI (04:43)
17. Lamentation VII (01:52)
18. Lamentation VIII (03:35)
19. Lamentation IX (03:29)
20. Lamentation X (01:57)
21. Revelation I (03:21)
22. Revelation II (02:54)
23. Revelation III (02:01)
24. Revelation IV (04:10)
25. Revelation V (02:52)
26. Revelation VI (03:34)
27. Revelation VII (04:04)
28. Revelation VIII (02:52)
29. Revelation IX (04:39)
30. Revelation X (04:18)
31. Celebration I (02:20)
32. Celebration II (05:56)
33. Celebration III (03:10)
34. Celebration IV (03:23)
35. Celebration V (02:59)
36. Celebration VI (04:02)
37. Celebration VII (03:41)
38. Celebration VIII (03:26)
39. Celebration IX (01:36)
40. Celebration X (04:10)
41. Incantation I (02:17)
42. Incantation II (01:59)
43. Incantation III (01:37)
44. Incantation IV (02:00)
45. Incantation V (03:15)
46. Incantation VI (01:50)
47. Incantation VII (01:54)
48. Incantation VIII (02:56)
49. Incantation IX (04:29)
foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2021-05-08 11:58:57
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Analyzed: Sufjan Stevens / Convocations
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.30 dB -11.67 dB 3:40 01-Meditation I
DR9 -0.31 dB -11.26 dB 2:27 02-Meditation II
DR9 -0.30 dB -13.66 dB 4:04 03-Meditation III
DR9 -3.15 dB -14.38 dB 2:10 04-Meditation IV
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.84 dB 2:11 05-Meditation V
DR11 -0.31 dB -13.81 dB 2:16 06-Meditation VI
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.45 dB 2:34 07-Meditation VII
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.56 dB 1:48 08-Meditation VIII
DR8 -0.31 dB -10.94 dB 2:12 09-Meditation IX
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.89 dB 3:40 10-Meditation X
DR11 -0.97 dB -15.78 dB 3:49 01-Lamentation I
DR10 -0.30 dB -14.99 dB 2:25 02-Lamentation II
DR9 -1.19 dB -13.15 dB 3:18 03-Lamentation III
DR10 -0.32 dB -13.14 dB 1:59 04-Lamentation IV
DR8 -2.01 dB -11.23 dB 4:11 05-Lamentation V
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.66 dB 4:43 06-Lamentation VI
DR9 -0.63 dB -14.03 dB 1:52 07-Lamentation VII
DR9 -2.10 dB -13.46 dB 3:35 08-Lamentation VIII
DR11 -0.53 dB -15.02 dB 3:29 09-Lamentation IX
DR10 -2.63 dB -15.91 dB 1:57 10-Lamentation X
DR11 -0.74 dB -14.86 dB 3:21 01-Revelation I
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.68 dB 2:54 02-Revelation II
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.09 dB 2:01 03-Revelation III
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.53 dB 4:10 04-Revelation IV
DR8 -0.29 dB -11.65 dB 2:52 05-Revelation V
DR10 -0.29 dB -13.65 dB 3:34 06-Revelation VI
DR10 -0.61 dB -13.56 dB 4:04 07-Revelation VII
DR11 -0.30 dB -16.23 dB 2:52 08-Revelation VIII
DR9 -0.42 dB -13.77 dB 4:39 09-Revelation IX
DR11 -0.29 dB -14.46 dB 4:18 10-Revelation X
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.60 dB 2:20 01-Celebration I
DR9 -0.81 dB -13.11 dB 5:56 02-Celebration II
DR11 -1.18 dB -14.62 dB 3:10 03-Celebration III
DR10 -1.94 dB -16.15 dB 3:23 04-Celebration IV
DR11 -0.31 dB -14.81 dB 2:59 05-Celebration V
DR10 -0.28 dB -13.47 dB 4:02 06-Celebration VI
DR10 -1.64 dB -14.68 dB 3:41 07-Celebration VII
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.94 dB 3:26 08-Celebration VIII
DR8 -1.97 dB -13.13 dB 1:36 09-Celebration IX
DR11 -0.25 dB -15.38 dB 4:10 10-Celebration X
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.90 dB 2:17 01-Incantation I
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.35 dB 1:59 02-Incantation II
DR9 -0.29 dB -10.71 dB 1:37 03-Incantation III
DR10 -0.30 dB -14.07 dB 2:00 04-Incantation IV
DR10 -0.30 dB -11.59 dB 3:15 05-Incantation V
DR13 -0.31 dB -15.15 dB 1:50 06-Incantation VI
DR9 -0.97 dB -14.53 dB 1:54 07-Incantation VII
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.35 dB 2:56 08-Incantation VIII
DR9 -0.59 dB -13.10 dB 4:29 09-Incantation IX
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Number of tracks: 49
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 713 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2021-05-08 11:58:57
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Analyzed: Sufjan Stevens / Convocations
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.31 dB -11.26 dB 2:27 02-Meditation II
DR9 -0.30 dB -13.66 dB 4:04 03-Meditation III
DR9 -3.15 dB -14.38 dB 2:10 04-Meditation IV
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.84 dB 2:11 05-Meditation V
DR11 -0.31 dB -13.81 dB 2:16 06-Meditation VI
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.45 dB 2:34 07-Meditation VII
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.56 dB 1:48 08-Meditation VIII
DR8 -0.31 dB -10.94 dB 2:12 09-Meditation IX
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.89 dB 3:40 10-Meditation X
DR11 -0.97 dB -15.78 dB 3:49 01-Lamentation I
DR10 -0.30 dB -14.99 dB 2:25 02-Lamentation II
DR9 -1.19 dB -13.15 dB 3:18 03-Lamentation III
DR10 -0.32 dB -13.14 dB 1:59 04-Lamentation IV
DR8 -2.01 dB -11.23 dB 4:11 05-Lamentation V
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.66 dB 4:43 06-Lamentation VI
DR9 -0.63 dB -14.03 dB 1:52 07-Lamentation VII
DR9 -2.10 dB -13.46 dB 3:35 08-Lamentation VIII
DR11 -0.53 dB -15.02 dB 3:29 09-Lamentation IX
DR10 -2.63 dB -15.91 dB 1:57 10-Lamentation X
DR11 -0.74 dB -14.86 dB 3:21 01-Revelation I
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.68 dB 2:54 02-Revelation II
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.09 dB 2:01 03-Revelation III
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.53 dB 4:10 04-Revelation IV
DR8 -0.29 dB -11.65 dB 2:52 05-Revelation V
DR10 -0.29 dB -13.65 dB 3:34 06-Revelation VI
DR10 -0.61 dB -13.56 dB 4:04 07-Revelation VII
DR11 -0.30 dB -16.23 dB 2:52 08-Revelation VIII
DR9 -0.42 dB -13.77 dB 4:39 09-Revelation IX
DR11 -0.29 dB -14.46 dB 4:18 10-Revelation X
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.60 dB 2:20 01-Celebration I
DR9 -0.81 dB -13.11 dB 5:56 02-Celebration II
DR11 -1.18 dB -14.62 dB 3:10 03-Celebration III
DR10 -1.94 dB -16.15 dB 3:23 04-Celebration IV
DR11 -0.31 dB -14.81 dB 2:59 05-Celebration V
DR10 -0.28 dB -13.47 dB 4:02 06-Celebration VI
DR10 -1.64 dB -14.68 dB 3:41 07-Celebration VII
DR9 -0.30 dB -12.94 dB 3:26 08-Celebration VIII
DR8 -1.97 dB -13.13 dB 1:36 09-Celebration IX
DR11 -0.25 dB -15.38 dB 4:10 10-Celebration X
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.90 dB 2:17 01-Incantation I
DR10 -0.31 dB -13.35 dB 1:59 02-Incantation II
DR9 -0.29 dB -10.71 dB 1:37 03-Incantation III
DR10 -0.30 dB -14.07 dB 2:00 04-Incantation IV
DR10 -0.30 dB -11.59 dB 3:15 05-Incantation V
DR13 -0.31 dB -15.15 dB 1:50 06-Incantation VI
DR9 -0.97 dB -14.53 dB 1:54 07-Incantation VII
DR10 -0.31 dB -12.35 dB 2:56 08-Incantation VIII
DR9 -0.59 dB -13.10 dB 4:29 09-Incantation IX
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Number of tracks: 49
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 713 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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